The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1887-06-09

S icy which extinguished its immense
debt in less that twenty years.
} Under these same "slothful and de-
moralizing" auspices of slavery, the
f great Indian wars were fought, their
, magnificent country opened to white
: settlement, the savages removed and
measures adopted for their civilization.
f Florida was acquired from Spain, and
t from France that vast domain, the
Louisiana Territory, comprising more
f than one million square miles, greater
in extent and richer in resources than
the whole territory of the then exist
S ing United States, and giving us the
l sole ownership of the Mississippi river
from its source to the Gulf. This one
: achievement, conceived and accom-
: plished by a Southern President,
through the supreme skill and courage
of Southern diplomatist, overshadows
: in its stupendous proportions, out
t weighs in the vastness of its results,
: every national measure presented by
7 Northern craftsmanship and secured by
, Northern enterprise since the landing
f at Plymouth Rock. 1t was this far
S reaching stroke of Southern diplomacy
/. which elected from the great Napoleon
S the prophetic remark, that "t the acqui-
: sition of Louisiana forever strengthens
e the power of the United States and
e gives to England a maritime rival that
d will some day humble he1 pride"
J. The war for the independence OF
" Texas and the administration OF its
l. government by its Southern Presidents,
IS was another manifestation of the
Ie "slothful energies" of these "depend-
l. ent idlers' and "overseers. The war
: with Mexico and the annexations OF
IS Texas were assailed by the free States
l. with the same vehement opposition
,e which they had presented to the last
1e war with England; but a Southern
n President again held the helm, the
to pluck and patriotism of the "gentle
s. men idlers" once more prevailed, ane
ne Columbia took into her embrace th'
n young giant of whom it has beer
tv graphically said, elf Texas were lait
ce on the face of Europe, with its heat
ITS resting on the mountains of Norway
re one palm covering London and tn
q, other Warsaw, it would stretch acros
en- the Kingdom Of Denmark, across tn
IT. Empires OF Germany and Austrls
ms across Northern Italy, and bathe II
rs. feet in the Mediterranean" 1t is ca
tes pable of producing 12,ooo,ooo bale
M of cotton and still have cattle rang
OF left larger than the whole State
,m New York This war, prosecuted b
d. the enervated, nonprogressive "ovel
led seers," gathered into the national de
ZEN main, also, the Territory of Ne
of Mexico, itself larger than the King
the dom of Great Britain and Ireland, e.
ais. tended the national boundary to II
the Pacific and opened to the world II
ave "golden gates" of California.
the Mr.. Tillett, in his haste to eleva
ave the New South by degrading the Oh
wo, forgets that most of the representatl'
ICE. men of the New South, her Senator
ty- Congressman, Cabinet Officers, Go
ere ernors, Judges, Jurists, leading Jou
At nalists, College professors, eminent q
ON vines and successful men Of business
md every line, were born and educate
ign under the "curse of slavery" The
ave is no New South The term is M
nto nomer and a myth. 1t is simply
rial phrase costume in which old prejudlc
af- masquerade through modern prln
,ial, seeking to pervert the education
two Southern children into the convictl
and that their ancestors, if not cflmna
all were little more than race Of "idler:
all blunderers, blockheads and fallur
eve But the present or future generatlo
the will never hnd reasons to De ashalh
the of the brain work of the Old Sou
The literature left us by Washingte
less jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Calho'
II of Stephens and Jefferson Davis, v
an stand as monuments of wisdom
de- models of classical lore, when
ping mountains of literary lumber, accun
ears, lated by professional bookmakt
and shall have crumbled into the dust
Is of ages. In all the departments of G
ern- eminent, civil and military; in law,
,lace erature and science, while the So
This has boasted no great army of writ
isto- whose wits are the price of bread,
the has furnished the minds productive
vet the grandest results to the country
to the world. When prolific little &
inis- NAL, vain of her numerous proge
sup twit.ed the lioness for nursing o
face one, the noble beast replied, so
the one, but tt is a hon"
aster 1t is the character and the mat
n as tude of thought, and not the abunda
Indv, of thinking, that cut the mighty
, FIVE everlasting channels where flow
,oted living streams of mind and pTogres
The naval and military cadets
itical the South have had no superiors Z
who class. The culture and intelligt
np a in the ranks of the Confederate al
. the we're unsurpassed by that of any oi
saries great armies OF the world, hence
enoe, exalted esprit de f0rps which so G
feet rendered the Confederate soldiers I
the than equal to an odds of three to
,pera- in the splendid columns Of the Fec
Il its army. Where is there an exampl
,outh- modern seamanship that will CON,